A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'guise'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
guiseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41812
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.1 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of guise in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
t boxer shorts in every kindo guise. on page 47

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
er bed yon nicht, nor yet fit guise he tuik, fur it lay ower deep
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
guile. "Ye damned witch in guise, ah'll get even wi ye wan dey on page 1

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
John ti pit the panser in the guise fank fur
set ower the dyke i the guise fank, an gat a sair gunk. It
na explene whitwey thon i the guise fank wesna the oreiginal. Nor
han pittin the tither ben the guise fank. Eftir, whan
He hed sein the panser i the guise fank whan thai pit the horss
6 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
uid be King o Scots. Alow the guise o bein a disinterestit judge on page 22

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
— the seicont bein Marie de Guise, mither o Mary, Queen o Scots
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A dash of impropriety in the guise ae bein kind; on page 26

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
rob it. Mebbe ye'd guise yersel up, like, and hae a we on page 115

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tae aa i the The Sunday Post guise, bit wi a pedigree gaun back on page 56

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
and! We war anely alloued tae guise at oor ain bit o the street,
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
up tae. Ye’v been haudin a guise wi yer freens an while ye wur
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
an a threit tae the American guise, hippies seen theirsels as co
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
ither’s brither, the Duc de Guise, aince scrievit o her,
1 matches

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